Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 4 Mar 2000 07:57:15 +1100 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: Help in DSM design |
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mauro@alusis.ucb.edu.bo writes: > Hi friends! > > I'm trying to develop a Dristributed Shared Memory sytem(DSM) using > Linux. I was wondering myself if using IP for the protocol of the > comunicationg nodes were correct?. I thing using IP will add so much > bytes to the messages(actually packets) sent by the nodes. Will be > better try another lighter protocol?. Could you also point me to > other similar projects that are being develop? it will clear my > ideas and help me with my problems
Ach! Not another DSM project :-( Don't do it. There's already a DSM implementation for Linux, and besides, you're better off with a message-passing interface. That way application coders can see how costly operations are. Using DSM hides that, resulting in inefficient code.
Regards,
Richard.... Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca
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